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The clandestine Boricua Popular Army staged a bank robbery in West Hartford, Connecticut, making off with $7 million in the largest cash theft in U.S. history at the time.
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Boricua Popular Army
Puerto Rican nationalist organization
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Águila Blanca (heist)
1983 robbery in West Hartford, Connecticut, US
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